Word: detective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Court went still further in 1966, restricting the definition of obscenity to material judged to be "utterly without redeeming social value." The "utterly" standard opened the floodgates of porn as an army of literary critics, psychologists, First Amendment libertarians and even clergymen testified at obscenity trials that they could detect a trace of social value in almost any erotica...
...hospital locker, a fellow doctor found 18 vials of curare, most of them empty. Former County Prosecutor Guy W. Calissi questioned Dr. X, but the surgeon insisted that he was merely using the muscle relaxant for spare-time experiments on "dying dogs." Told that it was impossible to detect curare in tissue so many weeks after death, says Calissi, now a judge, he dropped his inquiry...
...communal farm in Vermont claims Ginny next, and ultimately she sinks into a mindless marriage with the local snowmobile salesman. "The incidents in her life to date," Ginny fatuously decides, "resembled the Stations of the Cross more than anything else. If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert with out eating her vegetables...
...also has, in certain areas, an advantage created by sophisticated technology. American missiles are more accurate than their Soviet counterparts, American submarines are less noisy (thus more difficult to detect), and U.S.A.F. F-4s and F-15s are more versatile and powerful than the Russian MIG 21s and MIG 23s. What worries the analysts is that this superiority may not last, since the Soviets seem determined to narrow the quality gap. Moscow publishes no figures on its military expenditures, but the Soviet Union seems to be devoting an ever greater share of national spending to defense. Pentagon experts estimate that...
Important Presence. Because the Egyptian and Israeli surveillance stations can detect anything that moves in the area, some observers consider the U.S. mission's assignment useless. "They might as well spend all their time at that comfortable base camp of theirs, for all the good they will be doing," says one Western officer. Asks another: "You know what SFM really stands for? Singularly Futile Mission." Replies Thorne: "In a way, our presence is more important than what we do." He is right. Both sides are apt to think hard about a new offensive if it means rolling over...